12/01/2025, 10:13 am12/01/2025, 10:13 am
After the request for an urgent software update for thousands of Airbus jets, the airlines acted quickly. The world’s largest aircraft manufacturer announced on Monday morning in Toulouse that the necessary changes had already been made to the vast majority of the approximately 6,000 affected jets in the A320 model family.
An Air France Airbus A320.Image: AP
The DAX group and the European aviation authority EASA asked the airlines for the update on Friday evening after an incident at the end of October. Without this, the machines would no longer be allowed to start, the instructions said.
However, the restrictions on air traffic remained manageable at the weekend. Some airlines carried out the software update as early as Friday evening, which often solved the problem. Many travelers who were booked on an A320 aircraft hardly noticed anything about the short-term action.
Airbus had previously announced that intense particle streams triggered by the sun could lead to incorrect data processing in the aircraft, which is crucial for control. According to EASA, the incident involved a flight operated by the US company Jetblue on October 30th. The plane had to make an emergency landing after a problem with the flight controls and a sudden, uncontrolled loss of altitude. (sda/awp/dpa)